Leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj today said the government has presented a "tired man's budget" which lacked dynamism and the vision to overcome food insecurity and price rise.
"This is a tired man's budget. There is no dynamism in it... It lacks vision," Swaraj said at a FICCI-organised function here. She maintained that the allocation for increasing agricultural productivity and irrigation, among several other subjects, were too less to usher in any significant growth.
The senior BJP leader enumerated the programmes launched by the erstwhile NDA regime and alleged that the UPA had been "lethargic" in implementing them. She named the Golden Quadrilateral scheme and the interlinking of rivers as two such projects which were "slowed down" by the UPA.
Corruption, she insisted, was one reason for the delay. On the sensitive issue of food security, Swaraj said the government had faltered as it was yet not clear about the exact number of people Below the Poverty Line who need to be covered under the Food Security Act.
"Moreover, there has been a fall of 8 per cent in the land under agriculture since last year. From 680 lakh hectares under agriculture it has come down to 626 lakh hectares, leading to a fall in production of foodgrains," she said.
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